The impact of an object striking the tip of a horizontally mounted bar provides some insight into the dynamics of structural impact in general. Modeling a cylindrical bar provides significant simplifications to enable comparison between experiment and theory. In particular, experimental results available in the literature are compared herein to both elastic wave theory and vibration theory. Relating these two theories is the focus of this paper. Vibrations can be directly related to the time of impact, the maximum stress at the tip of the bar, and the frequencies of the struck bar. Once these stresses and frequencies are found, elastic wave theory can then be used to describe the stresses throughout the bar.

Volume Subject Area:
Pressure Vessels and Piping
Topics:
Rods, Stress, Elastic waves, Vibration, Dynamics (Mechanics), Modeling
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